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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-11-02
AauerttsRaemts.
Masonic Funeral Notice.

10y ORDER OF THE WORSHIPFTL MASTER,
d the officers and members of Hawaiian
Lodge No. 81, f. q A. NJ, hereby notified to
attend special meeting at the Lodge Room To-
DAY WEDNESDAY at 2 O'Clock p. m. for the
purpose of ate nding the funeral of late Bro.
Abraham Fernandez. The officers and members
of Lodge LIE Progress and all sojourning brethren
fraternally invited to be present.
T. G. PORTER,
1t Secretary
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
The Same-Something Different.

Dear Neigh6or: En- route to my
work Saturday, March 5, I fell in with
a very clever man and his pious,
Methodist wife with their only living
child, five years old-a bright boy-a
mute. had a pleasant and profita-
BILE railroad talk with these dear pa
rents, and rubbed the head and shook
the hand of the affectionate and intel
ligent little boy. Neither those pa
rents nor their little boy knew the de-
gre of my sympathy. Thirty-two
miles-"Good bye-Sister K-Bro. (?)
K-little boy"
An hour divided between the genial
friends of the "Derrick House," Der
rick's store and J. P. Bodies store
and the post Office and the remaining
hours were wisely appropriated to ma
ture's "sweet restorer."
Sunday-worship and visiting-four
or five families-abou as usual. With
John Drafts l called TO see some new
comers-clever additions to the COM
munity.
The Leesville community and coun-
try around, near and far, have for
weeks past been going through the
measles-or the measles going through
them. Sorry that some cases proved
fatal. The epidemics of measles,
mumps and roseola have about passed
over my parish. But marrying
Barre, Mitchells, Mrs. -, of Lees
vile, and the Rykards, (rather by the
wholesale) of the Concord community
goes on all the same. Cannot say
more-last minute. S. H. 3.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16

"Itis one of the simplest things In
the world to make acup of good coffee
and this can easily be accomplished by
applying little common sense. Ii
you put boiling water OIL coffee and dc
not let it boil, you have all the good
qualities preserved. One reason why
dyspeptics cannot drink coffee is be-
cause it is boiled. The style of coffee
pot is just matter of fancy. have
made as good coffee in an old tomato
can as I have ever supped from the fin
est French coffee urn. We should
take lessons in this matter from the
Turks and Arabians, who grind theil
coffee to q fine powder. When the
coffee is ground as fine as possible, put
it in a bag of unbleached muslin,
which should be tied tightly enough
to prevent the escape of grounds. II
you use a cupful of unground coffee
you can made quart of very strong
black coffee. In making coffee many
people sacrifice flavor for strength
Bitterness comes from boiling. When
boiling water is placed on the bag Of
ground coffee it should stand at least
three minutes before serving: Re
member, the longer it stands the
stronger it becomes"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
Pillows and Health.

Dio, Lewis, says: The proxlmate, il
not the original, cause Of a large pro-
portion of deaths among American ba-
bies ia some malady of the brain.
When we suppose the death to result
from dysentery or cholera infantum,
the immediate cause of the death is an
affection of the brain supervening up.
on the bowel disease. The heads OF
American babies are, for the most
part, little furnaces. What mischief
must come from keeping them buried
twenty-five hours out of every twen-
ty-four in feather pillows. 1t makes
me shiver to think of the number OF
deaths among these precious little
ones, which I have myself seen, where
I had no doubt that cool straw pillows
would have saved them. The hair
pillow is inferior to straw, because it
cannot, like straw, be made perfectly
clean and fresh by frequent change.
Do not fail to keep their little heads
cool.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16

Unless a man has something to show
for his advantages and opportunities,
the less he says about them as his pos
session, the better. If q mans ances-
tors were noble and eminent, an add
ed responsibility rests on him to evi-
dence his worthiness in the line of that
ancestry. The practical question at
issue in such a case, Is not whether he
has reason to be proud of his ancestors,
but whether his ancestors would have
reason to be proud of their descendant.
IF he has merely descended from su-
perior stock, it would be we'll for him
not to call special attention to the fact
of his descent. So again in ones edu-
cation and training. It Is of little use
for young man to say that he "serv-
ed his time" at q trade, or at q certain
business, if his attainments and skill
give no proof that his time served him.
If young man says that he has stud
led five languages under the best teach.
ers, it is only to his added discredit II
he can neither read nor speak any one
of those five languages fuently or crit
ically. 1t is Of less Importance that a
student goes through college, than that
college goes through student. What
man can show as q result of his ad-
vantages and opportunities is worth q
great deal more to him than long list
of advantages and opportunities which
might have shown him that which he
now has not. He who does we'll in
spite of his lack of helps deserves more
credit than he who lacks in spite of
helps which he had.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
Parental Friendship.

1t is hardly possible to overestimate
the effect of home training upon our
national and social well-being. The
lessons of the nursery, often held OF
slight account, come at length to form
the unconscious life of society, aud it
is, generally speaking, not too much
to say that, as is the character of our
homes, 80 will the character of our ma
ton, with its government, its politics,
its manifold industries, and all its va
ried and important interests. Of all
education, therefore, that which has
for its object the right fultillment of
parental duties would seem among the
most important. Yet, as a general
thing, that relation is entered upon
with only crude and desultory ideas of
the principles involved; and, while
intelligence and experience slowly
bring a measure of wisdom, it often
comes too late for the most pressing
neceSSltleS.
One of the most important requisites
of home life, and one perhaps most
frequently overlooked, is the intimacy
that should exist between the parent
and the child. This is, indeed, the
foundation on which all good inhuen-
ces may be most securely laid. The
control which is obtained through
fear, or force, or bare authority, has
nothing abiding it. Just as soon as
the fear is outgrown, or the force re-
moved, its power will pass away. But
tbe Influence which ia at work where
real sympathy and friendship exist be-
tween parents and children will abide
long after the relation itself is severed,
and will enter as powerful factor in
to the whole life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
F0reknowledge and Predestinati0n.

One of the older preachers of the
South Carolina Conference, himself
we'll known as Biblical scholar and
an able minister, respectfully express
es himself on this wise:
II hope you will give us through
the NEIGHBoR the Scriptural teach.
ing of Gods foreknowledge and pre-.
destination"
OF course we could give only what
we understand that teaching to be.
This we may do sometime when we
are less pressed than we now are with
other claims.
Some years ago we were called out
on this subject by an intelligent lay
man who was earnestly seeking to
know the truth. We published one OF
more editorials when we were request
ed by one of the preachers of the Con-
ference to desist; that he thought my
views were hurtful inasmuch as they
were unsettling the minds of some
people in his charges-that some per-
sons who had had different views were
falling in with our explanation of fore.
knowledge, &C. We held up-wrote
no more. Not long after that the same
preacher said to me that he wished we
had continued until we had said all
we had to say.
If we conclude to give what we un'
derstand the Scripture to teach or
foreknowledge and predestination
and it should provoke controversy we
shall 60 through next time, but with
the single desire to know and teach
the truth, and strive withal to learn
and teach the truth in love and for the
truths sake.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
Troublesome Children.

Children of force, vitality, sensitive
ness, individuality, will quarrel more
or less, in spite of everything. Grown
people possessing these qualities do so.
The aggressive man was an aggressive
boy; the enterprising, energetic man
was an enterprisirg. restless boy, often
a very uncomfortable boy to get along
with. Sensitiveness and impatience
are by no means inconsistent with
fine and noble character. There isn't
a mother, alive to the interests Of her
children and her own responsibilities,
that can help exclaiming, "Who is
sufficient to these things! =" But when
we have done our best, the wisest
thing we can do is to leave events with
God and not cripple our energies nor
waste our time in the contemplation
of our own inefficiency and the weight
of responsibility resting OH us.
When we have implanted an earnest
desire in the hearts Of our children to
grow every day more and more noble
and true; when we have kindled with
in them the fires Of earnest and un-
quenchable aspiration toward what
ever dignifies and exalts human char
acter; when we have given them an
habitual impulse upward and forward,
we have done we'll by them. The lea
ven once hidden in three measures of
meal will work till the whole lump is
leavened.
God bears with criminals and hu-
man hyenas and waits for the good to
triumph over the evil. Cannot we
wait for our children to mature into a
ripened manhood and womanhood ?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16

At the recent meeting of the Execu
tive Committee of the Woman's Boaro
of Missions in Nashville the following
after due examination, were accepted
as missionaries:
Mrs. J. P. Campbell, of Los Angeles
CAL, a granddaughter of DR.. Martin
Ruter, who was the first missionary to
Texas in early times.
Miss Kate r. Roberts, of Nashville,
Tenn.
Miss A. F. Gordon, of Columbus,
Miss.
Miss S. G. Brown, of Anderson. S.
G..
Miss Bette Hughes, Of Meridian,
Miss. -,
Miss Emma Kerr, of Brownsville,
Tenn.
The foreign fields to which these
women will be assigned is not yet
made known.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
Bishop TaylOr's Steamer.

The Methodist Times, of London,
England, publishes the following con-
cerning Bishop Taylor's steamer:
"They have just contracted with Mr..
Richard Smith, shipbuilder, Preston
and Lytham, for specially construct
ed light draught steamer to navigate
the inland rivers and lakes in Central
Africa, which will enable them to WIS.,
it by water their missionary stations
lying far apart. The length of the
steamer is ninety feet, beam sixteen
feet, depth five feet; it is built entire
.ly of steel, and galvanized throughout,
and great speed will be attained.
Accommodation is provided for on
deck in two saloons, sixteen feet long
and eight feet broad each. The hold
is arranged for carrying cargo. She
is fitted up with electric light, one arc
light for the masthead, and ten incan-
descent lamps for the saloons. There
is to be fitted on deck a steam-saw for
cutting up the firewood gathered from
the forests along their journey for fuel.
The boat is to be built in pieces, and
packed in parcels not exceeding sixty
five pounds each, shipped by steamer
from Liverpool to the Congo, there
discharged into barges and taken a
distance of eighty miles up the river,
then carried on the heads of natives
some two hundred and thirty miles up
to Stanley Pool. We congratulate our
venerable friend on this great enter
prise"
The steamer will be provided with
electric lights, and hose to be attached
to powerful steam pump, and used
as a weapon of defense in case of at
tack. Bishop Taylor said: Neither
dogs nor men can stand before such a
shot of water"
If this is true representation of
Bishop Taylor we cannot exactly rec
oncile his preparation for defense"
with what seemed, in the outset, to be
an uncommonly strong faith in God
and, through God, in the humanity of
the savages in Africa. The Bishops
faith, courage and wisely directed la
bors have excited our admiration but
we cannot now feel the same persua-
sion that his life and iabors will be so
certainly in the keeping and under the
blessing of God.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16

PREPARING SUMMER SUPPLY OF
WooD.-All work which can as well be
done now as some months hence,
should be done before the rush of
spring work. Preparing the summer
supply of stove-wood can better be
done now, than in the spring or sum-
mer. The pieces can be sledded up
now, which is easier and speedier than
hauling them in a wagon. The tenn
perature is more favorable to chopping,
which is a job for cold weather and not
for hot weather. And now green wood
can be cut, and will be seasoned when
wanted; whereas, if the supply is pre-
pared only as needed, dry, hard wood
must be cut, or else the housewife be
subjected to the vexations of burning
green wood. The smaller branches
are best prepared for the stove by using
the ak exclusively; but the butts and
the larger branches are best worked up
by saving them into stove-wood
lengths with a cross-cut saw, and then
splitting them with the ak. Stove
wood can be made very rapidly in this
way. Light, soft wood, thoroughly
seasoned, is the best summer stove
wood. IT makes quick, hot fire, and
dies down quickly without Goals, al
lowing the room to cool rapidly after
the meal is prepared. Save the dense,
hard wood for winter. White elm and
cottonwood are the best of all for sum-
mer stove-wood, and are scarcely fit
for anything else. The blocks of hick-
ory (usually) oak, etc., are best split
through the heart; but cottonwood
and white elm must be ''slabbed off,"
working toward the heart. Be careful
to cut the wood of the proper length.
To doso is as easy as to have half the
sticks too long, and the other half too
short, and will save the housewife
much vexation. After the wood is
prepared, put it uuder shelter. Only a
rich man can afford to be without a
wood-house. Those with ready mon
ey can build something tasteful, but
structure that will answer every pur-
pose can be built at a cost not exceed
ing fifteen dollars.-Ag'ic,lturist.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16

The judgments of wise men are Of
ten wide of the mark. John Wesley
called at the house of rich man to
ask him for gift for some charitable
purpose. While waiting for the own
er Of the house to appear, Mr.. Wesley
overheard him rebuke a servant for
wasting a candle, and inwardly
thought that so close man would not
be likely to aid him. But after Mr..
Wesley made known his desires he re-
ceived the gift of large sum, and was
told by the donor that it was by saving
scrupulously the little mites that he
had the ability to give largely. We
once saw a gentleman of great liberal
ity to the Church, the poor, the cause
of temperance and humanity, and of
equal generosity in his dealing with
his clerks and employees of every
grade, rebuke woman who was sell
ing him quarter of pound of grapes
and gave him light weight. He COM
PEELED her to put on three or four more
grapes. When asked why a man who
did not care for the gift of $50, 1000
should contend for three or four grapes
with woman, he said: II cannot see
business done unfairly. If could, I
would now be a poor man. If that
woman were suffering, I would relieve
her. But if she sells me quarter of a
pound of grapes, I do not want three
ounces and half"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
Influence Of Light on Animals.

AS q rule the parts of animals most
exposed to rays of light are, other
things being equal, richest in coloring
matter. The backs of wild animals
are usually, and with few exceptions
las among nocturnal and burrowing
animals), more strongly colored than
their bellies. Another class of excep-
tions may he seen among fishes of GER
tain families which lie on their sides
instead of on their bellies and expose
not their backs, but one of thesr sides
to the light. In these fishes the upper
side is colored, while the under side,
next to the ground and the darkness,
is not. Articulates also have their up
per sides most strongly colored, al
though what in them answers most
nearly to the dorsal column is next to
the ground. The parts of the shells of
mollusks which are in contact with
the ground are uncolored, while the
parts exposed to the light shine with
varied tints, and this, whatever may be
the peculiar positions assumed by par
ticular shells. For individuals of the
same race, the abundance of the color
ing matter is generally proportioned to
the intensity of the light to which they
are exposed. This fact is generally I'M
derstood, though exact observations
bearing upon it are not as numerous as
it is desirable they should be. II is
we'll known that the skin is tanned by
light, that people from the north are
Drowned by living in the south, and
that ruddiness and freckles appear un-
der the action of the sunlight. Some
people of the white race, like the Hin
docs and the Moors that live in south.
ern climates, are frequently darker
skinned than the negroes themselves.
Still we cannot affirm that light is the
only cause of these changes. Mr..
Gould has observed that birds are more
strongly colored when they live in
countries having g. clear sky than on
islands or the seashore. Berchstein
says that the colors of the plumage of
cage birds are affected by the shade in
which they are kept. Mr.. Allen has
shown that the color of several species
in the United States changes as we 60
from north to south.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16

If God is entering more and more
into your thoughts, if you are loving
to talk with him in prayer, if i'm your
home, your business and your pleas
ures you are seeking to do his will that
whatever you do you may glorify him,
then you have daily witness that you
are citizen of heaven-that your
white robe is being woven by your
words and acts of every day.
No grace is more necessary to the
Christian worker than fidelity; the
humble grace that marches on in sun
shine and storm, when no banners are
waving, and there is no music to cheer
the weary feet.
When the Christians soul is expos
ed to the sun of Righteousness ess the va
pors of pride and selfishness and
worldliness float off, and there is chief
ly left beneath pure white holiness OF
heart.
Grace does not come to the heart as
we set cask at the corner ofthe house
to catch the rain in the shower. 1t is
pully fastened 70 the throne of God
which we pull, bringing the blessing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
The Value of Will Power.

The measure of will-power is the
measure of personal power. The pos
session or the lack of will-poweris is the
possession or the lack of personal pow
er. The right or the wrong use OF
will-power is the right or the wrong
use of ones truest personality, Hence
the careful guarding and the wise
guiding of a child's will should be
counted foremost duty of a parent or
teacher ho is responsible fora child's
training. Yet it is not unusual for
parent or a teacher to strive deliberate
fy to break a child's will. Said fair
Iy intelligent Christian mother, in
speaking Of the home discipline Of her
children: II have large family OF
bows. BY nature they are strong-w1ll-
ed (possibly by inheritance. But l
always see to it that their wills are bro
ken. The time has come with every
one of them when fair issue was
made, and have seen that now was
the time to break that child's will:
Sometimes it has been a very hard
struggle, but I've always conquered.
And after that one struggle, I've new
er had any more real trouble with that
child's will" Poor misguided moth
er! Poor misused children! A broken
will is worth as much in its sphere as
a broken bow; just that, and no more.
A child with broken will is not SO
well furnished for the struggle of life
as child with only one arm, or only
one leg, or only oneeye. Such child
has no power of strong personality, or
of high achievement in the world. A
child onght to be trained to subordi-
nate his will cheerfully to the demands
of duty; but that is bending his will,
not breaking it. No child's will ought
ever to be broken. Nor ought any pa
rents will to be broken-even though
it might seem that an exception should
be made against parents will which
would seek to break the will ofa child.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
HOUSE AND FARM.
Discipline.

A block Of marble caught the glance
OF Buonarottls eyes,
Which frightened in their solemn deeps,
Like meteorological skies.
Listening, there stood beside him one
Who smiled the while he heard:
"I'll hew an angel from the stoneW
Such was the sculptor's word.
Soon mallet def and chisel keen
The stubborn block assailed;
And blow by blow, and pang by pang,
Tho prisoner unveiled.
A brow was lifted, high and pure;
The waking eyes outshone;
And, as the master sharply wrought,
A smile broke through the stone.
Beneath the chlsers edge the hair
Escaped in floating rings,
And, plume by plume. was slowly freed
The sweep OF halffurled wings.
The stately bust and graceful limbs
Their marble fetters shed;
And where the shapeless block had been
An angel stood instead.
O blows that smite! o hurts that pierce
This shrinking heart Of mine!
What are ye but the Masters tools
Forming work divine?
o hope that crumbles to my feet!
Ojoy that mocks and flies!
What are ye but the clogs that bind
My spirit from the skies?
Sculptor OF Souls! lift to Thee
Encumbered heart and hands!
Spare not the chisel! Set me free
However dear the bands.
How blest If all these seeming ills
Which draw my thoughts TO Thee
Should only prove that Thou wilt make
An angel ont of me.